A kind gentleman wrote me that there hasn't been a war fought over science but many fought over religion. I agree that too many have been over religion but I feel this war for example is being fought over oil and nuclear capabilities which put it in the realm of science. Would you agree or disagree?
2006-07-11 07:11:19 · 15 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I do not "believe" anything about George Bush except that he is only a figurehead. The real power in the US is not in the presidents hands.
2006-07-11 07:19:03 · update #1
I did not state as to what I believe but I can tell you as the mother of sons and the aunt of many nephews of military age that I did not want this war.
2006-07-11 07:21:57 · update #2
The war in Iraq has nothing to do with religion. Its all about oil, power, etc.
2006-07-11 07:15:28 · answer #1 · answered by Candice H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel there are two wars in Iraq, one is the US led war for "freedom" the other is the Iraq-Iraq war for what kind of government the new Iraq will have, religion fits in this one.
The US claims to be "fighting for their freedom" but we want two things, oil and control! Oil, is obvious, so I wont go into that. Control is important to the US. The US will stay in Iraq even for many years after the conflict is over. What the US is doing is install a US friendly Muslim government, one that will be our ally; the US does need a friend in that region. America has to realize that we cannot expect U.S democracy to work in another country. Democracy HAS to come from within a country and not forced. We cannot shove it down everyone's throat just because it works for us.
2006-07-11 14:33:54 · answer #2 · answered by Noi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is either a war over religion or science. It seems purely political to me (and truthfully all wars, even the ones supposedly fought in the name of religion, were really just political...the shrewd politicians just knew that calling a war in the name of religion would get more people to fight for them so they did it, but the war itself was for political reasons..even the Crusades were politically motivated not religiously motivated, religion just entered into the picture to ensure that large enough armies went to fight for the cause of the skillful politicians, some of which just happened to also be clergy like the Pope).
2006-07-11 14:37:22 · answer #3 · answered by gabriel_zachary 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wars are never fought over religion or science. They are invariably fought over power and control. United States men and women are fighting and dying in Iraq for the sole purpose of keeping the people who are in power where they are. Instability in the Middle east threatens to topple the powers that be. We create major upheavals elsewhere to prevent them from happening here.
2006-07-11 14:21:36 · answer #4 · answered by lunatic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oil is a resource, and the Iraq war is a war over a resource. Most of the wars throughout history have been fought over resources, such as land, food, labor, or more abstractly, control over trade routes or ports. Religion is often used to justify war, although there have been wars fought over religion.
2006-07-11 14:18:49 · answer #5 · answered by RabidBunyip 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean me? Well oil and nuclear capabilities are technologies that are undoubtedly consequent on the discoveries of science. But whatever is happening in Iraq isn't about a dispute in science, I am sure. It's political and economic. Whatever the outcome, it won't indicate the supremacy of one scientific idea over another, do you agree? It indicates the supremacy of one economy or political entity over another. Neither of these can be measured in a laboratory.
2006-07-11 18:34:49 · answer #6 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume than that you bought the crap about them developing WMD's when it has been proven time and again that was just a guise for which to invade. You'd be more correct to say that we want to ram our Democratic ideals down their throats than to say that the war is over Science. At the end of the day though it's about resources...specifically OIL. PEACE!
2006-07-11 14:17:25 · answer #7 · answered by thebigm57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither.
I believe the war is being fought on freedom and the threat that terror presents to the entire world, especially America.
God bless you and God Bless America.
2006-07-13 22:04:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The motive was to make sure that the country is stable, not in the hands of a man who wants us dead, and self preservation. You tell me where oil fits into that equation. God damned liberals would rather us just be annihilated I guess....
2006-07-11 14:24:04 · answer #9 · answered by bc_munkee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you truly believe that Bush is even capable of pronouncing the word "science", let alone start a whole war over it?
2006-07-11 14:16:51 · answer #10 · answered by Thinx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋